Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 16:02:26 -0500
From: GrndZeroCO@AOL.COM
Subject: TEBEDO STEPS DOWN
KEVIN TEBEDO REACHES AGREEMENT WITH CFV BOARD TO PART
COMPANY
COLIN COOK INCIDENT BELIEVED BE THE STRAW THAT BROKE CAMEL'S BACK
Colorado Springs CO 11/06/95) Will Perkins today announced that Kevin
Tebedo, a founder and Executive Director of Colorado for Family Values (CFV),
has been removed by mutual consent from affiliation with that group.
Perkins sung effusely Tebedo's praises and endorsed his actions and
philosophies as being like his own in announcing the severence, which is
immediate and included a severence package.
Ostensibly, the reason for the separation was that Kevin's issues went beyond
the norrower focus of CFV and he was given the choice of confining his
activity to that focus or looking for other venues.
"In all probability," said Frank Whitworth, Executive Director of Ground Zero
Colorado Springs, the gay and lesbian advocacy organization, "Kevin's public
face of radicalism, endorsed by the CFV board and Will Perkins, was the
problem. They don't seem to disagree with it--they just are better PR people
and don't support what they are really all about being so publicly known."
In fact, in the last year, CFV has hit on harder times. Starting with
Tebedo's charge into quiet and diverse Manitou Springs, charging that their
Rainbow Plan for Parks and Streets was homosexuallly inspried (causing CFV
and tEbedo to be held up to ridicule), Tebedo seems to have taken a number of
significant and uncomfortable steps.
He has become more and more visible in attending meetings of the Patriot and
Militia movement and in consorting with known leaders of this movement,
including State Senator Charles Duke. Recently he participated in a "Common
Law" Trial of the US Government.
Last year, he asked a gay and lesbian gathering "Where will you
(homosexuals) go when we (Radical Right) Win."
The Community Standards Resolution has died a hard death and is seen as a
major blow to CFV and to Tebedo.
Tebedo's mother, a Colorado state senator, offended the Black Communty by
indicating that historical and ingrained black promiscuousness was a prime
factor in their problems.
Tebedo's sister, Linda, drives around Colorado Springs without proper license
plates, sporting Sovereign tags.
Kevin insisted on endorsing and defending Colin Cook, whom CFV has been
introducing around the state, when Cook was revealed by the Denver Post as
continuing sexual abuse of his clients.
All too much for Will Perkins and gang, it would seem. In their statement,
they continued to quote the old Paul Cameron lies and myths, denounced by the
APA, ASA and the AMA, in regard homosexuality and his statistics about gay
mortality, saying gay lifestyle casues gay males to doe at the average age of
42. a disproved and incorrectly developed statistics.
Education took the forefront of the CFV press conference, where it was made
clear that the new front for the assault on gays and lesbians was to be in
public education. Repeating the lies and disinformation of the goals of gays
and lesbians and denouncing the recently issued Natinal Education Association
action plan as "horrendous"
Perkins made it clear that this is where the battle would be.
TEBEDO, I HIS FINAL STATEMENT, ALSO GAVE CLEAR INDICATION THAT HE WOULD BE
MOVING FURTHER RIGHT WHEN HE SAID THAT I WILL CONTINUE TO WORK FOR MY
SOVEREIGN STATE OF COLORADO AND ITS PEOPLE.
CONTACT:
FRANKLIN WHITWORTH, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, GROUND ZERO
1-719-635-6086